““Letter to a Christian Nation.” Despite the title, the crudest caricature he draws is of the Hebrew Bible.”
Maybe because the OT portrays God in a less than favorable light. Every atheist and pagan I’ve discussed religion with always, without exception, takes issues with the way God behaves in the OT. Sure they nitpick certain NT passages here and there, but the overwhelmingly bloodthirsty picture of God in the OT makes an effective apology extremely difficult. If you know of any websites or books that present a good apology, not written by Christians (since they can fall back on Jesus), please PM me.
Believe me, you're "preacing to the choir," brother! I've always been by turns frustrated and enraged at the way "philo-Semitic" liberals treat the Jewish Bible while all the time proclaiming disdain for chr*stianity and their great "love" of the Jewish people!
Unless the Jews themselves begin to engage in apologetics (the topic of Klingoffer's article) then I'm afraid there's very little we non-Jews can do, and G-d will remain "the big goy in the sky."
BTW, I've always maintained that J*sus is just an excuse for Jewish liberals to malign Fundamentalist chr*stians; the real reasons Jewish liberals hate these people so much is that the latter, through their familiarity with the TaNa"KH (Hebrew Bible) know that Judaism is not identical with urban, cosmopolitan hyperliberalism. Of course, these same "anti-chr*stian" liberal Jews then demand legislation that sounds like it came right out of the "sermon on the mount!"
I'm a Noachide and not a Jew, but you might find my web site of some interest.
Keep reminding these liberal "lovers of the Jews" that the "old testament" is JEWISH!!! PS: You have no idea how tired I get of evolutionists battling "chr*stianity" by tearing Sefer Bere'shit (Genesis) to shreds!
So, are you Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of the East or Ancient Church of the East?
How do prospects for an independent Assyria look at this time?
The amusing thing about that is that the God revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures was a being of incredible mercy, kindness and forbearance - even more so when compared to the false deities of other peoples who neighbored the ancient Israelites.
I guess it's a typical trait of human nature that when God shows mercy, even when He has absolutely no need to show mercy for any reason, He is criticized for ever exacting justice at all.
Like children who expect to be rewarded by their parents even when they are misbehaving.
In the Hebrew Scriptures, if one reads with attention, one sees that God is a marvel of lovingkindness.